Re: devfs vs. udev

viro
2003-10-07T18:24:38Z

On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 10:53:10AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:

> A few things happened:
> - the devfs maintainer/author disappeared and stoped maintaining
> the code.
> - devfs was found to have unfixable bugs
> - it was determined that the same thing could be done in
> userspace (like udev.)

It went more like

- it was determined that the same thing could be done in
userspace
- devfs had been shoved into the tree in hope that its quality will
catch up
- devfs was found to have fixable and unfixable bugs
- the former had stayed around for many months with maintainer claiming
that everything works fine
- the latter had stayed, period.
- the devfs maintainer/author disappeared and stoped maintaining
the code.